Thursday, 23 July 2009

A young women returns home to find her village in the midst of a delicate transformation. Then her young brother's disappearance starts a chain of events that turns her whole world upside down. Step into a world of unseen dangers, feel the pain of passion, and find love in the most unlikely places. Welcome to Vila Pisa Bem! Read More - http://www.cmfd.org/

Launched in June 2009, Vila Pisa Bem (Walk Well Village), produced by CMFD (Community Media for Development) Productions for World Without Mines Mozambique, is a serial radio drama designed to raise awareness, disseminate information, and encourage safe behaviours around landmines in Mozambique.Vila Pisa Bem is a six-episode (10 minutes each) serial radio drama. The storyline focuses on a rural community around which a demining operation is in progress. A young village woman who has returned from college in the city for school holidays and a young deminer are the central characters who find themselves searching for a missing brother. Despite landmine accidents and heavy rain that cuts the village off from the main road to town, the two young people and the community "learn about love, dealing with life in a mined community, and the importance of a world without mines."

The radio drama uses an entertainment-education strategy. Through drama and storylines, the series intends to raise awareness about the presence of landmines in the country and encourage people to take precautions. It addresses issues such as safety, the impact a lack of access to medical services can have on mine victims, real dangers of demining, high stress levels deminers face, the importance of a community educator, children's vulnerability to landmines accidents, and vulnerability exacerbated by annual rains. Although the drama is designed primarily for people at risk, i.e. rural communities, the drama also hopes to increase awareness among policy makers, leaders, and the media. In the second half of 2009, the drama will be broadcast in four languages - Portuguese, Shangaan, Sena, and Macua - on 30 community radio stations across the country through the National Community Radio Forum (FORCOM). Each participating radio station will receive a copy of the Portuguese and relevant local dialect versions

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